Pneumatic straw-stacker



(No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet l.

E. HUBER & J. W. MILLER. PNEUMATIC STRAW STACKER.

No. 555,902. Patented Mar. 3, 1896.

NDREW B GRAHAM. PHUTU-I-ITI'IO.WASHINGTDILIHIv (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

E. HUBER & J. W. MILLER.

4 PNEUMATIC STRAW STAGKBR. No. 555,902. Patentd Mar. 3, 1896.

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EDNVARD HUBER AND JACOB \V. MILLER, OF MARION, OIIIO.

PNEUMATIC STRAW-STACKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 555,902, dated March 3, 1896.

A li ti fil d June 26, 1895. Serial No. 554,104. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, EDWARD HUBER and JACOB V. MILLER, of Marion, in the county of Marion and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pneumatic Straw-Stackers; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

0 ur invention relates to an improvement in pneumatic stackers for thrashing-machines, and more particularly to devices for supporting the stacker-trunk in its operative position and permitting it to be properly folded over the top of the machine when not in use, the object of the invention being to so construct and arrange the devices for raising or straightening out the stacker-trunk that when the latter is folded on or over the top of the machine said devices can be so disposed as not to project upwardly above the stacker-trunk, whereby the machine will be permitted to pass through barn-doors if desired.

A further object is to provide a pneumatic stacker made in sections hinged together, with simple and eflicient means for straightening the same to dispose the parts in position for use. I

A further object is to provide a pneumatic stacker-trunk made in sections hinged to gether, with means for preventing the upper or forward part of the trunk from falling farther down 011 the top of the thrashin g-machine than is desired.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as hereinafterset forth, andpointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is.

chine, to the rear end of which the strawstacker is applied. The stacker-trunk,which is made in two parts B B, is carried by a base B revolubly mounted on the rear of the machine in any approved manner.

The parts B B of the trunk are hinged to gether by means of a hinge a, attached to the under or rear edges of the parts of the trunk v at their abutting ends, so as to permit the trunk to be readily folded or broken over the top of the machine. In order to prevent the forward portion B of the trunk from fallin g too far down on the top of the machine, the two parts of the trunk are connected to gether by means of a link or stay D, preferably having an elongated slot 1), one end of said link or stay being attached to the part B of the trunk and the other end adapted to engage a hook c on the part B of said trunk, which hook enters the elongated slot in the link or stay. From this arrangement it will be seen that when the stacker is folded over the machine the trunk will break at the hinge between the parts B B and that the downward movement of the forward part B of the trunk will be limited by the link or stay D. lVhen the stacker is straightened out or distended for use, the hook 0 will move freely through the elongated slot in the link or stay.

A bracket d is mounted on the base B at each side of the part B of the trunk, and to the upper ends of said brackets a standard 1 is pivotally connected. A prop or standard 2 is also pivotally connected to the inner end of the part B of the trunk. A truss rod or cable 3 is connected at one end to the upper end of the standard 1, passed through a guide 4 at the upper end of the prop or standard 2, and at its other end is attached to the forward end of the part B of the trunk. Bearings 5 are carried by the base B for a shaft 6 of a drum 7. One end of the shaft (i is provided with a worm-wheel S, which receives motion from a worm-shaft 9, and the latter is provided with a wheel 10, by which to operate it. One end of a rope 11 is wound on the drum '7, passed over pulleys 12 13, attached to the base B and standard 1, respectively, and at the other end said rope is attached to said base B hen the standards 1 2 are in their normal posit-ions and the Windlass, constructed as above explained, is operated, the forward portion B of the trunk will be raised and brought into alignment with the portion B of said trunk.

lVhen the trunk of the stacker is folded over-the top of the machine, as shown in Fig.

2, the standards 1 2 can be turned down, so as not to be in the way when it is desired to run the machine through a barn-door, and the truss rod or cable 3 can, if desired, be removed.

Our improvements are simple in construction, easy of ayplieation, and effectual in the performance of their functions.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a stacker, the combination with a trunk made in two sections hinged together at their lower sides, of a slotted link hinged to the lVitnesses:

JOHN J. CRAWLEY, JOHN A. SOHROETER. 

